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Originally published: Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940. viii, 436 pp. This was the first comprehensive treatise on the legal status of the African-American as interpreted by United States courts in cases involving civil rights and citizenship. Some of the topics examined in this work are land ownership, involuntary servitude, segregation, failure to provide accommodations in charitable and penal i...

Reprint of the first American edition. With notes and references to English and American cases. "Of all the French writers upon Commercial Law, Emerigon holds the first rank. His writings and his reputation are not confined to France alone, for the jurists of Great Britain and the United States have equally derived assistance form his labors, and have borne their united testimony to his great learning and diligence. Lord Ellenborough says, "wh...

Examines an important and complex period in the history of the laws and customs devised by merchants to regulate their relations with each other, and the changes in the law merchant and in negotiable instruments in colonial New York during the years 1664 to 1730 in the context of New York's commercial place in the British Empire. "Economic influences and legal theory combined to form the New York law of negotiable instruments during the coloni...

Highly regarded when first published, this treatise has retained its value and is often cited today. Reprint of the first edition. Chitty addresses the body of customary authority, privileges and immunities belonging to the Crown. An intricate, vaguely defined field with medieval roots, it has entailed a wide range of matters, from the regulation of the civil service to the supervision of resident aliens and the granting of honors. Joseph Chit...

First Complete Study of the Status of Slavery in the United States. Published a year before John Brown's raid and three years before the outbreak of the Civil War, this was the first book-length work to treat the status of slaves at length. As such, it is a landmark work in the bibliography of American civil liberties. Hurd reviews the statutes concerning fugitive slaves and their extradition, analyzes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and discus...

Moore's analytical survey considers what the U.S. Supreme Court has accomplished through its power to declare statutes unconstitutional. Although he restricts his focus to the federal level, he considers state cases in some detail and includes an appendix that lists cases in which state enactments were declared unconstitutional because of their conflict with the federal constitution. Moore also discusses early attitudes of state courts before ...

Moore's analytical survey considers what the U.S. Supreme Court has accomplished through its power to declare statutes unconstitutional. Although he restricts his focus to the federal level, he considers state cases in some detail and includes an appendix that lists cases in which state enactments were declared unconstitutional because of their conflict with the federal constitution. Moore also discusses early attitudes of state courts before ...

English Law and the American Colonies. The British government was certain that its American colonies would be governed by English law, but was uncertain about the nature of its legal institutions. The development of the legal system in the thirteen colonies, and the way English institutions were adapted to colonial conditions, is the subject of this monograph. Impressively documented, it is founded on original research based on manuscript sour...

A Breakthrough Treatise on Administrative Law. With a New Introduction by Kevin M. Stack, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School. XXX (new introduction III-XXX), x, 641 pp. Originally Published: St. Paul: Keefe-Davidson Company, 1903. "Bruce Wyman's treatise on administrative law, The Principles of the Administrative Law Governing the Relations of Public Officers (1903), provides the first development in American legal thought of t...

From our Foundations of the Laws of War Series, the book that introduced and defined the concept of genocide. Introduction to the Second Edition by William A. Schabas. Introduction to the First Edition by Samantha Power. Originally published: Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law, 1944. xxiii (vii-xxiii new introductions), xxxviii, 674 pp. In this path-breaking study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin ...

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